• theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    Great book but I highly recommend you read the second book, Fall of Hyperion, afterwards as it rounds out the story nicely. I know there are more books afterwards but I was satisfied after the first two as I felt that it completed the story nicely and j never felt I wanted more tbh.

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      6 days ago

      Fall of Hyperion is a good stopping point. I liked 3 and 4 as well, but they’re doing their own thing. I tend to think of it as two separate pairs rather than as a single 4 book series.

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          I liked them. The arc of the first two is over. You get more details about the Shrike, but if you’ve gone years without reading further, I can’t imagine it’s that pressing.

          If you reach a point where you’re looking for sci fi, and don’t have another obvious choice, go for it you’ll probably like them. But I wouldn’t recommend shifting them above anything in your backlog. Hyperion and Fall off Hyperion really are the stars here.